# CVE-2025-12690: Local Privilege Escalation in NGFW Engine

> Local attackers can escalate privileges on Forcepoint NGFW Engine due to execution with unnecessary privileges.

- **Severity:** High 7.3 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 11 Mar 2026
- **Updated:** 11 Mar 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-6c8f-r55r-h256

## What is CVE-2025-12690?

CVE-2025-12690 is a high-severity vulnerability in Forcepoint NGFW Engine, published on 11 Mar 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Execution with unnecessary privileges in Forcepoint NGFW Engine allows local privilege escalation.This issue affects NGFW Engine through 6.10.19, through 7.3.0, through 7.2.4, through 7.1.10.

Weakness: CWE-250 (Execution with Unnecessary Privileges)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-12690?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-12690?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-12690 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-12690 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-12690 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Forcepoint NGFW Engine

- [CVE-2019-6143](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-6143/): Auth bypass in Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall (critical 9.1)
- [CVE-2021-41530](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-41530/): Denial of service in Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall (high 7.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-12690 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-12690 is a high-severity vulnerability in Forcepoint NGFW Engine, published on 11 Mar 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-12690 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Forcepoint NGFW Engine. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-12690/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-12690/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-12690
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12690
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-12690

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-12690/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.